Bono Lends Medical Insight
, chair of family medicine at NYITCOM, is quoted in an article about proposed New York State legislation that aims to limit children鈥檚 exposure to secondhand marijuana smoke. Bono explains that there has not been enough research into the long-term and secondhand effects of marijuana smoke to say for sure whether exposure has any significant impact. The lack of research is attributable to many factors, including patient hesitancy to admit to doctors that they smoke, and marijuana鈥檚 federal classification as a Schedule 1 narcotic under the Controlled Substances Act 鈥� the same classification as heroin and methamphetamine.
鈥淚t doesn鈥檛 make a difference whether it鈥檚 vaping or whether it鈥檚 cigarette smoke or marijuana, smoke in your lungs is bad for you,鈥� Bono says. 鈥淏ut in terms of secondhand smoke, we don鈥檛 have much of a [research] registry.鈥�